Download or read book Perceiving Pain in African Literature written by Z. Norridge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of literary accounts of suffering from sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines fiction and life-writing in English and French over the last forty years. Drawing on writers from the canonical to the less well-known, it uses close readings to examine the personal, social and political consequences of representing pain in literature.